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Catharine Tunnacliffe

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Nicotina (2003) 47% 2.5/5 EDIT “Close enough to Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels to make no difference, Nicotina delivers the predictable in a blur of phone calls, gunshots and lightning-fast editing.” – eye WEEKLY Aug 7, 2004 Full Review The Butterfly Effect (2004) 34% 1/5 EDIT “An exercise in ponderous gloom and doom.” – eye WEEKLY Apr 9, 2004 Full Review Jersey Girl (2004) 42% 2/5 EDIT “The problem is the subject matter: a cozy ode to fatherhood with a maudlin audacity that would make Dickens blush.” – eye WEEKLY Apr 9, 2004 Full Review Stupidity (2003) 67% 4/5 EDIT “The idea that our culture is dumbing down is nothing new, but fortunately Stupidity skips the predictable finger-wagging at our collective idiocy in favour of a more interesting, academic study of stupidity.” – eye WEEKLY Apr 9, 2004 Full Review Miracle (2004) 80% 1.5/5 EDIT “Everything about this movie is painfully stock.” – eye WEEKLY Apr 9, 2004 Full Review Ginger Snaps II: Unleashed (2004) 88% 3.5/5 EDIT “A well-paced horror whose slick, exhilarating action sequences are a significant improvement over the original.” – eye WEEKLY Feb 1, 2004 Full Review Radio (2003) 34% 1/5 EDIT “Feigns compassion for the mentally challenged, but treats Radio as a pet, a toy, a prop.” – eye WEEKLY Jan 15, 2004 Full Review Mona Lisa Smile (2003) 33% 3/5 EDIT “Considered less as a piece of entertainment and more as an argument constructed to further a feminist agenda, the film is hugely impressive.” – eye WEEKLY Jan 15, 2004 Full Review Love Actually (2003) 65% 2/5 EDIT “There's simply too much here to digest.” – eye WEEKLY Jan 15, 2004 Full Review Sylvia (2003) 37% 3.5/5 EDIT “Not the last word on the subject by any means, but it is a solid entry into the canon that sensibly resists beatification or crucifixion of the Ariel poet.” – eye WEEKLY Jan 15, 2004 Full Review Cold Mountain (2003) 69% 3/5 EDIT “Law and Kidman are the stars, but it's the secondary characters that the audience will connect with and remember, especially Ruby.” – eye WEEKLY Jan 15, 2004 Full Review Kitchen Stories (2003) 90% 3.5/5 EDIT “Hamer is gifted with both a sly wit and a rich visual vocabulary.” – eye WEEKLY Oct 22, 2003 Full Review My Life Without Me (2003) 65% 3/5 EDIT “Polley wipes herself of all intelligence and beauty for the role, and almost all emotion; her lack of affect is both frustrating and somehow fitting.” – eye WEEKLY Oct 1, 2003 Full Review Bus 174 (2002) 96% 3.5/5 EDIT “While the hostage-taking story alone is compelling drama, Brazilian documentarian José Padilha pushes the story further, making a compelling case that the incident was an inevitable result of a city that treats street kids as vermin.” – eye WEEKLY Oct 1, 2003 Full Review Girl With a Pearl Earring (2003) 73% 2.5/5 EDIT “As muted and still as a Vermeer painting, Girl With a Pearl Earring has atmosphere to burn and a near-total action vacuum.” – eye WEEKLY Oct 1, 2003 Full Review Anything Else (2003) 40% 3/5 EDIT “Ricci is perfectly cast, and seems to relish her character's blend of cruelty and cluelessness.” – eye WEEKLY Oct 1, 2003 Full Review Cold Creek Manor (2003) 12% 2.5/5 EDIT “Despite the film's predictability, there's something in the film that makes you want to root for the bad guy.” – eye WEEKLY Oct 1, 2003 Full Review The Fighting Temptations (2003) 42% 2/5 EDIT “This film would have been better with a lot more gospel and a lot less Gooding.” – eye WEEKLY Oct 1, 2003 Full Review Veronica Guerin (2003) 53% 3.5/5 EDIT “Journalists don't usually get much respect at the movies, but Veronica Guerin is successful in its straight-up retelling of the true story of a journalist who turned into a modern-day martyr.” – eye WEEKLY Oct 1, 2003 Full Review Girl Hood (2003) 94% 4/4 EDIT “A compelling and ultimately positive portrait of teenagers.” – eye WEEKLY Sep 24, 2003 Full Review Rugrats Go Wild (2003) 39% 1.5/5 EDIT “As a Rugrats neophyte, I found it hard to understand what makes them so beloved: their voices are shrill and charmless, and so much of the humour springs from grating babytalk.” – eye WEEKLY Jul 8, 2003 Full Review 1.5/5 EDIT “Like song lyrics that look clunky when written on the page, lines from the book die a thousand deaths when they come out of the mouths of the actors.” – eye WEEKLY May 2, 2003 Full Review What a Girl Wants (2003) 34% 1.5/5 EDIT “Gordon and Co. slobber all over themselves at how quaint and wonderful the British are, producing an effect that is strongly, cheesily American.” – eye WEEKLY Apr 20, 2003 Full Review View From the Top (2003) 13% 1.5/5 EDIT “It would be almost likeable if it weren't for the contradictions that rip the guts out of the set-up.” – eye WEEKLY Mar 25, 2003 Full Review Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002) 24% 2/4 EDIT “A turgid, pretentious piece of work that may have played well on the page, but is too heavy and slow-moving to work on the big screen.” – eye WEEKLY Mar 25, 2003 Full Review
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